A Few Links

[rusty_halo]

http://rusty-halo.com/wordpress/?p=3189

So, there’s this, which you’ve probably read by now, and if you haven’t you probably should, because it involves the fandom community and it’s important.

rm responded by saying pretty much everything I was thinking.

I’ll add one thing, which is that it is both the concom’s right and responsibility to ban someone who behaved so inappropriately. I applaud the Wincon organizers for doing so, for making a responsible choice to keep their con safe for their attendees.

I’ll also say that, when something like this happens, I feel that it’s my responsibility to follow the links and understand as much as I can about what happened before I speak out about it. It’s clearly not appropriate to respond to this by criticizing how the victims handled the situation. Here is post that gets to the heart of why victim-blaming is so fucked up and horrible: Saying No by fickle_goddess. (Thanks to a_white_rain for linking to this.)

Here is a post about how rape culture works and here is a post about misogyny in fandom, both of which have been sadly demonstrated in action in this debacle.

Also, here is one of my favorite links ever: Sexual Assault Prevention Tips, Guaranteed to Work! (Thanks to jolielaide for pointing me to it.)

I feel so sick and sad about this whole thing.

Originally published at rusty-halo.com. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[justhuman]

Thanks for this post. This is the first one I've run into that actually links back to the start of the matter.